Summer Break 2021: Week One

We are finally on summer break after the craziest year of my teaching career and by far the strangest school year I hope the boys will ever have! With masks and "work from home" days through remote learning and zoom meetings, we made it through the 2020-2021 school year!  Now to some of my favorite weeks of the entire year..... summer break with uninterrupted time with my boys!  Here is how we spent week one of summer break.....

We celebrated daddy for Father's Day!  We are so thankful for all he does for your family! We were able to eat lunch with the Kennedys, Bakewells and Williams family which made for a fun celebration of all the dads!

That afternoon, the boys wanted to throw water balloons so mommy made it happen while daddy was napping. ;)

We fit in two days to the pool this week... once with the Kennedys and Williamses at the YMCA pool (we went as their guests) and a second day at one of my co-workers' neighborhood pools.  The boys are becoming little fish again in the water!

We also went to one of the summer movie series where they played "Kung Fu Panda" and we ate yummy popcorn and enjoyed soft drinks!  (I forgot to take a picture).  We also celebrated Josh and my birthday.... we grilled out at the Williams' house and the boys helped me make a fun-fetti cake!

We celebrated my birthday.... complete with breakfast in bed (something Zander was determined we were doing)!

Then, we loaded up the car for a drive to Carowinds for the day... what better way to celebrate your birthday than with riding roller coasters and "patiently" waiting to ride the attractions?!  Zander's favorite ride was the Carolina Goldrusher and Maddox's favorite ride was the Woodstock Express!  We had a blast and we are already looking forward to when we can go back as the boys get a little taller and are able to go on more of the big rides!

We stopped for BBQ on the way home.... I had the loaded mac-n-cheese.... complete with a glass of wine!  

We definitely wore ourselves out from the fun day..... everyone slept well that night (Maddox got started with a power nap using the new stuffed animal he won as a pillow on the way home)! ;)